Cop Charged With Robbing Drug Dealers
http://gothamist.com/2008/10/31/cop_charge...n_drug_robb.php
Police officer Jorge H. Arbaje-Diaz was arrested for his alleged involvement in a "brazen drug robbery gang, which stole more than $4 million in dirty narcotics money from dealers up and down the East Coast," according to the Post. Prosecutors say the gang had a haul of 750 kilos of cocaine; the Daily News reports that Arbaje-Davis, a three-year NYPD veteran, "used his job to enter the homes of some victims, and in one case participated in an armed robbery while wearing his NYPD uniform, badge, gun and handcuffs." The indictment also says he "threaten[ed] to arrest them if they did not reveal where their drugs and money were stored." Additionally, another retired NYPD may have also been part of the gang which "kidnapped and sexually tortured some of their victims."

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Seven Memphis Cops Robbed Drug Dealers of Cash & Drugs -- and Sold the Drugs
http://bucknakedpolitics.typepad.com/buck_...-the-drugs.html

"The evidence at trial showed that from November 2003 through April 2006, [Arthur] Sease conspired with other Memphis police officers to use their authority as law enforcement officers, including their service weapons, to rob suspected drug dealers of cash, cocaine and marijuana.

"Sease and his co-conspirators would then resell the stolen drugs for their own profit. The government introduced proof of 16 separate robberies, as well as one attempted robbery. In each robbery, Sease or another uniformed Memphis police officer, would pull over a car containing suspected drug dealers and steal whatever drugs and cash that they found."

"According to evidence presented at trial, Sease conspired with other Memphis drug dealers to arrange drug deals so that he could rob the other dealers when they arrived. On one occasion, evidence showed that Sease had a co-conspirator resell cocaine that Sease had stolen from one drug dealer to another drug dealer. Sease then pulled the buyer’s car over, stole the cocaine again and resold it. Sease and his co-conspirators kidnapped several drug dealers in an effort to get them to set up additional drug deals for Sease to rob.
"Sease was a Memphis police officer from 2001 through 2005. He was discharged in 2005 for misconduct relating to one of the robberies. After he was fired, one of Sease’s co-conspirators, Andrew Hunt, became a Memphis reserve police officer and the two continued to rob drug dealers while pretending to be police officers, according to evidence presented at trial.

"Five other individuals have already pleaded guilty in this case. Hunt pleaded guilty in September 2006 to a federal civil rights conspiracy, robbery affecting interstate commerce and drug distribution, and was sentenced in December 2006 to 19 years in prison. Former Memphis police officers Antoine Owens, Harold McCall and Alexander Johnson pleaded guilty to civil rights conspiracy charges and are currently awaiting sentencing. Laterrica Woods, a civilian who helped Sease and Hunt with one of their robberies, also pleaded guilty to a civil rights conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced in March 2009."
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Two counterfeit cops rob 4 people in Cleveland
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/03/tw...rob_four_1.html

Two counterfeit cops robbed four people late Thursday night and talked their way past real Cleveland police officers investigating the crime.

Police received a call shortly after 11 p.m. of a break-in at a home in the 1600 block of East 70th Street. Third Police District Officers found three men and a woman lying on the floor of the basement with two men standing over them who claimed to be with 5th District Vice.

The men claiming to be vice officers said they didn't need help and they had the situation under control.

The patrol officers walked out and told other officers who had arrived that it was a 5th District bust, according to a statement issued by police spokeswoman Nancy Dominick.

But one of the officers outside had worked in 5th District Vice and decided to go inside to say hello to his fellow squad members.

The fake officers quickly left, saying they were going to search for another man who ran out the back. They walked east down an alley but the suspect was supposedly walking west on Quimby Avenue. The real officer grew suspicious.

Police went back into the home, and the victims told them they had been robbed by the fake vice officers. Police declined to reveal what was taken in the robbery. The victims are all from Cleveland -- three men, ages 33, 42 and 42 and a woman whose age was unknown.

Officers had seen a green Ford Explorer in the area earlier. The SUV was located and police questioned the driver, Kenneth Porter, 36, of Shaker Heights. He was initially released after he went with police back to the house to see if the victims could identify him as a suspect.

But after police questioned the suspects more, Porter was stopped again.

Officers found a gun in his vehicle. He has a permit to carry a concealed weapon, but police said he never told them he was carrying a gun which is a requirement. He was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon and improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.

He was also held on suspicion of robbery and kidnapping related offenses, but was not charged with those crimes.

Porter is security guard for the Cleveland Municipal School District but does not carry a gun in his job, police said. He has worked for the school district since 2006.

Police said when he was arrested, Porter had "identification items" belonging to the victims. Officers are looking for more suspects in connection with the case.

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http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-127872902.html
Corrupt cops, drug dealers in Chicago tried to rob rivals, prosecutors say

Jan. 28--A ring of corrupt police officers paired with drug dealers on the South Side allegedly staged traffic stops and tried to break into the homes of rival dealers to rob them of drugs, guns and cash, federal prosecutors alleged Thursday.

Only one of their four attempts worked, but the investigation into what authorities described as their often inept schemes led to nine arrests that include four veteran cops.

The arrests also reopened questions about the death of an Englewood police officer in 2001.